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An economics professor has concluded that a proposed rent control program in Pacifica could cost the city $2 million each year to implement.
Tom Means, a professor of economics at San Jose State University, shared this conclusion in an analysis of Measure C, the rent control proposal appearing on November’s ballot in Pacifica. Means, who serves on Mountain View’s newly formed Rental Housing Committee, prepared his report for the Coalition for Housing Equality.
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Despite objections from CAA, the Mountain View Rental Housing Committee on Monday declared Dec. 23, 2016, the effective date for the city’s rent control ordinance, even though the law remained on hold until spring of this year.
In addition to implementing rent control, Measure V rolled back rents charged after the effective date to levels collected in October 2015.
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Tenant advocates are trying to force Mountain View landlords to refund considerable amounts of rent money collected for the period during which a court-ordered postponement of the city’s rent control law was in effect.
The tenants coalition in Mountain View is pushing the city’s Rental Housing Committee to publicize Dec. 23 as the effective date of Measure V, the rent control law approved by voters in the November 2016 election.
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